Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he will be able to get the best out of Springbok centre Faffa Knoetze who has been battling with injury and actuarial exams for the last few seasons . |
| 2 | The first 10 procedures were performed in a median 166 minutes but with increasing experience and modification of the technique , there was a gradual reduction in procedure time to 51 minutes for the last 50 patients . |
| 3 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 4 | Table I shows mean breath hydrogen concentrations for the last three days of each test period for responders and non-responders . |
| 5 | It was adopted as an ISO standard back in 1986 , and has led something of a ghostly existence in the commercial market ever since , hovering on the boundaries of document interoperability solutions for the last five years . |
| 6 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 7 | Liam Carson , general manager / director of the Groucho Club , has worked in London restaurants for the last 15 years . |
| 8 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 9 | Zvi could n't remember how long it was since he had last found it necessary to advertise , but with Wine telling the Cork Examiner 's readers for the last three weeks that ‘ owing to the great increase of my practice ’ he was moving to larger premises Zvi felt he had no alternative . |
| 10 | She had heard raised voices for the last two hours , ever since she and Peter had arrived , and she was miserably aware that it was all her fault . |
| 11 | The magazine carries an interview with the Princess 's favourite clairvoy ant , Irish psychic Betty Palko , of Surbiton , Surrey , who has given Diana spiri tualist sessions for the last five years . |
| 12 | This brochure remembers the Thun-Hohensteins , who for three centuries made the castle an artistic centre in North Bohemia , and the close links between this family — Bohemian patriots for the last 200 years — and the political and cultural life of the country . |
| 13 | She had maintained two thousand feet for the last five miles . |
| 14 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 15 | Geoff 's helped at England winter nets for the last two years . |
| 16 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 17 | Sergeant Nafi is a Turkish Cypriot policeman Who has accompanied these patrols for the last fourteen years . |
| 18 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 19 | The classroom practice will be taken care of in a series of group observation and teaching visits and will be supplemented by their school attachments for the last four or five weeks of the term . |
| 20 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 21 | Police in Salvador noted that in their city , on average , there has been a mob lynching every three days for the last three years . |
| 22 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 23 | bank statements for the last twelve months if you are applying to a bank other than your own ; |
| 24 | They have also won the Shropshire Schools ( middle size schools ) Championships for the last three years . |
| 25 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 26 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 27 | Observations for the last six days before maturity were dropped , as was the period around the October 1987 stock market crash . |
| 28 | Does it bring it back mem memories for the last ten years ? |
| 29 | After winning the top-heat level breaks for the last two Saturdays , Batley Ranger could notch up a hat-trick in Saturday 's event , which is sponsored by DLS engineering . |
| 30 | The scheme , along with other CAP reform details on sheep and suckler cow quota , as well as new stocking density calculations , was explained to the meeting by a senior Meat and Livestock Commission economist , Mrs Lesley Greene , who has been monitoring CAP changes for the last six months . |